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I suspect there is a point or ideological agenda to the lie "People earlier in more 'primitive' cultures were lucky to live to see their 30th birthday", its the

by antocv 13y ago

I suspect there is a point or ideological agenda to the lie "People earlier in more 'primitive' cultures were lucky to live to see their 30th birthday", its the old "life was brutal without civilization and a state to keep you safe and well" which then suggests we should also be lucky today to have all this modernism and be thankful to have "progressed" so far as to live to 31.

derleth 13y ago
> "life was brutal without civilization and a state to keep you safe and well" It was. Children died in infancy, which is why the life expectancy was so low. If that isn't brutal, you need to redefine the term.